On behalf of the Search Team and Vestry, it is with gratitude and excitement that we welcome The Reverend Canon Megan Anderson Gartin as our new rector of St. Michael’s Episcopal Church. After a year’s long process, today we embrace a new chapter in the life of our congregation and look forward to one of growth, renewed vision and deeper fellowship with our new leader.
Our journey to call a new rector included one who would nurture the spiritual growth of our members, attend to the pastoral needs of an aging congregation, support and promote our outreach and social justice programs, encourage participation in ministry and financial giving, help grow and broaden our membership, work collaboratively in parish administration, and strengthen our relationship with St. Michael’s Episcopal Day School.
Reverend Megan comes to us from Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Sacramento. She is Vice Dean and has been acting Dean these past three months while The Very Reverend Matthew Woodward has been on sabbatical. She is a graduate of the University of California, Davis, and Yale Divinity School in New Haven, CT. She is married to The Very Reverend Tom Gartin, rector of Faith Episcopal Church in Cameron Park and Dean of the Capital Deanery They are parents to a young son, Teddy.
In her Vice Dean role, she has had a large administrative role in guiding the church, supervising staff and lay leaders, directing Pastoral Care, Welcome and Connect new members program, Social Justice programs; and Young Adult Ministries.
Prior to Trinity, she served as Chaplain and Camp Director at The Bishop’s Ranch in Healdsburg, CA. She also was founder and practitioner of Mega Nourishing in Seattle, WA., leading online and in-person clergy wellness retreats.
Her call to the priesthood began early on as a cradle Episcopalian. Her love of ministry started in seventh grade in youth ministry. She was a peer minister at UCD and loved faith conversations with her peers. She felt she had a calling to the Episcopalian priesthood and joined the Episcopal Service Corps in Boston, where she loved nurturing faith communities. She learned her ministry can nourish people’s lives so that they can be the leaders God is calling them to be in this world.
We look forward to her beginning this new journey with us. Her arrival invites us to embrace our past, celebrate our present and eagerly anticipate our future.
She will begin September 2, 2025, and her first Sunday will be September 7, 2025. Let us welcome her to St. Michael’s with our famous hospitality!
With gratitude,
Tammy Murray, Senior Warden
